Are you one of the VERTICAL DEAD` (Nov, 1953)
Are you one of the VERTICAL DEAD
This man stands . . . he walks . . . he talks … he goes to work … he supports a wife and children . . . BUT HE IS DEAD!
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Ouch! That first paragraph sure hits home….
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I’M NOT DEAD!
I’M GETTING BETTER!
I FEEL FINE!
Don: No you’re not! You’ll be stone dead in a moment! http://www.youtube.com/…
It will get better when we have a GOP president– in the meantime I’ve decided to live like a monk and be dead to the world.
What I would like is to have some psychic abilities so that I could win that lotto and simply disappear.
KD5ZS: Not if he thinks that the solution to our problems is mandating school prayer and teaching creationism in school or if she needs to have why there are two Koreas explained to her.
I see a new horror film in the making…
‘Night Of The Vertical Dead’
Tagline: “They stand…they walk…they talk…they go to work…they support their wives and kids…BUT THEY ARE DEAD”
Sorry, I don’t think that I’m coming back to life until 2013 or 2017 depending on the outcome of the elections. I’m a defense/aerospace type and I’ve suffered every time a democrat was in the white house. My last project was the B-1B and we all know what Carter did to the original B-1.
KD5ZS: I was in the Army during the Carter administration so you have a fellow traveler here. We’ll have to commiserate over a beer sometime.
All I know is when Bush took office the US government had a budget surplus, unemployment was 4.2%, we were at peace, and I had a job. When Bush left office the government had record budget deficits, unemployment was 8.1%, we had two unresolved wars, and I had been unemployed for ten months.
JMyint: Fair enough, all but the peace thing. If Clinton got his 3rd term something tells me the WTC would still have been attacked, no?
But would it have takene 9 years to resolve Afghanistan? And don’t get me started about the unprovoked invasion of Iraq. Just where are those wmds?
JMyint: Yeah, if only we could get a Democratic President and both Houses of Congress! Err, never mind!
As for the Raiders of the Lost WMDs, I chalk that up to the same things as “Remember the Maine” for the Spanish-American war and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution for LBJ and Vietnam.
Related to the “vertical dead”, I’ve heard workplace humor where some people referred “RIP” workers. RIP in this case stands for “Retired In Place”. It’s a term used to describe older workers who are unenthusiastic and do the bare minimum to avoid getting fired, just hanging on until the pension kicks in.
You know, it’s always refreshing and unusual to have American politics brought up when it has nothing to do with the topic in question. It’s not like Americans do this everywhere online, as if they were desperate to turn every single article ever into a whine about American USA USA USA politics as if the rest of the world (and the rest of the US that doesn’t involve politics) didn’t matter.
Well I wouldn’t mind coming back to life, but the project that I was working on had its funding cut, resulting in my layoff.
I don’t think I’ve ever met a man who underestimates his ability but I’ve met plenty of women, at least among college students.
This book is still available for purchase….
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PS: It’s NEGATIVE THINKING that’s keeping you from being rich and successful.
PS: HGTTG vs HTTYAIC? Dead for tax purposes?
jay: Could I direct your attention to post #2 for a minute?
Oops…. Maybe I should have read it.
“The Vertical Dead” would be a good name for a band.
“The Vertical Dead”; is that the PC term for “Zombies”?